tedfroop;628723 Wrote: > From the beginning of CD's it has always been that there is a volume > identifier at the beginning of the disk. This identifier set the > playback level for the disk. If you ever think its not true get two > pressings of a cd from Europe and North America and play them back to > back. (ie: The Cream of Eric Clapton) All the RG tags are higher on the > West German pressing than the American pressing. > Back in the day of records you could only make the recording X loud or > the needle would skip out of the track. That and there was no such > thing as playlists which we have now where you could pick up huge > volume differences from track to track. > > All replay gain does is set the volume level for each track so you > don't have to, and no it doesn't ignore some of the digital stream to > do that.
With all respect, that's twaddle. There is NO RG or anything even remotely similar on CD's, never has been. The pressings are at different levels because they have been mastered differently! -- Phil Leigh You want to see the signal path BEFORE it gets onto a CD/vinyl...it ain't what you'd call minimal... Touch(wired/XP) - Audiolense 3.3/2.0+INGUZ DRC - MF M1 DAC - Linn 5103 - full Aktiv 5.1 system (6x LK140's, ESPEK/TRIKAN/KATAN/SEIZMIK 10.5), Pekin Tuner, Townsend Supertweeters, Blue Jeans Belden Digital,Kimber 8TC Speaker & Chord Signature Plus Interconnect cables Stax4070+SRM7/II phones Kitchen Boom, Outdoors: SB Radio, Harmony One remote for everything. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Phil Leigh's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=85 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=87061 _______________________________________________ ripping mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/ripping
